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Top-ten Email Management Tips

much inbox-related angst is easily avoided with a few simple changes in what you use for email and how you process it. >> read more

 

 

Meetings 101

If you want to have more effective meetings, first you have to learn the basics. Here are some simple, easy-to-follow and proven guidelines that should be followed each and every time your group meets. >> read more

 

 

Why Your Employees are Losing Motivation

Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. >> read more

 
 

Meetings 101

If you want to have more effective meetings, first you have to learn the basics. Here are some simple, easy-to-follow and proven guidelines that should be followed each and every time your group meets.

 

Print this page. Hang it on your meeting room wall. Write the guidelines on a poster. Memorize them by heart. Do whatever it's going to take to improve your meetings!

 

Guidelines you and your group can follow before, during and after your meeting:

 

1. Only hold a meeting if necessary.
2. All meetings must have clear objectives.
3. Invite a neutral facilitator to sensitive meetings.
4. All meetings must have an agenda which includes:
  topics for discussion
  presenter or discussion leader for each topic
  time allotment for each topic
5. Meeting information needs to be circulated to everyone prior to the meeting.
Make sure to include:
  meeting objectives
  meeting agenda
  location/date/time
  background information
  assigned items for preparation
6. Meetings must start precisely on time so as not to punish those who are punctual. This also sets the stage for how serious you are about making the meeting effective.
7. Meeting participants must:
  arrive on time
  be well-prepared
  be concise and to the point
  participate in a constructive manner
8. Meeting notes must be recorded and made part of the company's meeting information archives.
9. The decisions made by the group must be documented.
10. Assigned action items must be documented, and the host, or an appropriate participant, must be appointed to follow-up on the completion of all action items.
11. Meeting effectiveness must be reviewed at the end of each meeting and suggested improvements applied to the next meeting.

From Effective Meetings.com

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

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Our Lives Are Shaped By The Decisions That We Make And The Decision To Act Is Fueled By Confidence

The bottom line is that confidence is a resource which is both invaluable and essential toward the achievement of just about any goal.  Knowing that your confidence level is going to not only govern every decision that you make but is also going to have a direct impact on the quality of life that you experience, don’t you think you owe it to yourself to own

 Confidence Beyond Belief….?

 

 

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